Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person?

The Game Room
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Or, I should say, invented instead of created.

I’ll give another hint … you may not know him, but you’ll probably know his voice.

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Hmmm- not Tony the Tiger, that is Thurl Ravenscroft,. Oops that would have bee a good question.

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Thurl Ravenscroft? So that’s who did Tony the Tiger’s voice first.
(When I was a kid, I called his son (in the animated commercials) “Arthur Godfrey.” :o)

  1. Louisa Moritz, who appeared on a deodorant commercial in the late 60s, was a poor man’s Loni Anderson–kind of a real-life bimbo.

  2. Frank Edwards was a science-fiction writer; had a big thing for flying saucers.

  3. Peggy O’Neil was a cabinet member’s wife who caused a scandal that broke up the cabinet during Andrew Jackson’s first Presidential term.
    Here are more:

  4. Harland Svare

  5. Stewart L. Udall

  6. Matthew Brady

  7. Hetty Green

  8. Frances Perkins

  9. Holly Palance

  10. Bob Clarke

  11. Jaime Jarrin

  12. Aimee Semple McPherson

  13. Luis Miguel Domingúin

  14. Generoso Pope

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Close!

Bill Roberts was the singing voice of Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Brothers cartoon “One Froggy Evening.”

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  1. Civil War photographer
  2. Miserly millionaire, nicknamed “the Witch of Wall Street”
  3. First female cabinet member, FDR’s Sec. of Labor
  4. Actress, Jack Palance’s daughter
  5. Evangelist, famously ‘disappeared’ for what turned out to be a tryst
  6. Matador; had an affair with Ava Gardner
  7. Publisher of the National Enquirer
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  1. Stewart L. Udall, important political guy in Utah, Arizona or thereabouts. Brother of Mo, same.

  2. Bob Clarke, the star center for the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1970’s?

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I wouldn’t have known: That cartoon is at the bottom of the list so far as I am concerned; I would just as soon have never seen it (long story).

  1. Harland Svare was a coach for the Rams when Roman Gabriel was the quarterback.
  2. Steward L. Udall was JFK’s Secretary of the Interior.
  3. Bob Clarke was a long-time artist for Mad.
  4. Jaime Jarrin is a broadcaster for the Dodgers who does the play-by-play in Spanish.

Here we go again:

  1. Israel Baline
  2. Emil Sitka
  3. Jimmy Breslin
  4. Munro Leaf
  5. Horatio Seymour
  6. Ivan Osiier
  7. Lillie Langtry
  8. Frieda Klussman
  9. Clare Boothe Luce
  10. Madeleine Albright
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  1. Irving Berlin
  2. Explorer of Alaska?
  3. Unsuccessful NYC pol in 1969; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1986; living on Earth in 2014
  4. Nineteenth Century American?
  5. Judge Roy Bean’s favorite actress; namesake of a West 49th Street restaurant
  6. Proud possessor of naturally curly hair?
  7. Playwright; journalistic spouse
  8. Recentish State Sec
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Favorite “odd-couple” match-up: Comedian Milton Berle, who was famously well-endowed, claimed he also had a brief fling with her.

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Another Odd-couple match: William Bennett, Reagan’s drug czar, dated Janis Joplin

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  1. Drew Curtis - The guy behind Fark.com
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245: Children’s book author; his most famous probably being “Ferdinand, the Bull.”

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  1. Emil Sitka: supporting player in 3 Stooges shorts
  2. Writer & artist; Grammar Can Be Fun; wrote “Were You a Tel-Tapper-Phoner Last Month?” in a MAD article in the comic-book years
  3. Ran against Grant for President in 1868
  4. Competed in Olympics for Denmark, as fencer–1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960!
  5. Headed organization to Save the Cable Cars in San Francisco in 1947

Yet another ten:
251. Lou Groza
252. John Sparkman
253. Margaret Dumont
254. June Cochran
255. Doug Storer
256. Beatrix Potter
257. Stevie Nicks
258. Nicéphore Nièpce
259. Hawley Harvey Crippen
260. Grigor Efimovich Novikh

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  1. “The toe” of the Cleveland Browns. Kicked the winning field goal in the 1950 NFL championship game.
  2. Marx Brothers costar, A Night at the Opera.
  3. Peter Rabbit’s mother.
  4. And she can sing, too.
  5. Ameri-Brit. Killed his wife and got away with it for a while. Name-dropped in an Agatha Christie novel.
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  1. Wasn’t that Rasputin’s birth name?
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  1. John Sparkman
    Senator from Mississippi, Vice Presidential running mate with Adlai Stevenson in 1956

  2. Nicéphore Nièpce
    took first photograph??

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  1. Nino Rota
  2. Jay Ungar
  3. Michael Swango
  4. Barry Dennen
  5. Donna Dixon
  6. Don Dixon
  7. David Dellinger
  8. Felix Adler
  9. Jonathan Frid
  10. Candace Bushnell
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  1. Had something to do with Rocky and Bullwinkle? If not, I think I’m close.
  2. Actress. Blonde. Or at least, a blonde.
  3. Spiritual leader of the Chicago Seven. Abbie Hoffman expressed regret at not having hung out with him more (he also liked Jane Fonda, despite her [as he saw it] bad taste in men).
  4. There have been a lot of famous Adlers. I’ll guess this was the Ethical Culture guy.
  5. Author of Four Blondes, One Fifth Avenue, and Sex in the City
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  1. Leon Gambetta
  2. Fredric Wertham
  3. Muriel Spark
  4. George Jean Nathan
  5. Otto Skorzeny

To clean up, Ely Parker was a Union officer of Seneca extraction, present at Appomattox, about whom Robert E. Lee supposedly said something like “good to see one real American here”, to which Parker supposedly replied “we are all Americans”.

Monk Eastman, of New York City, had the misfortune of coming along just a little before the Golden Age of the American Gangster, but probably wielded more power than most of the more storied names of the 20’s and 30’s.

Dorothy Richardson pioneered the “stream of consciousness” technique in her 1915 novel “Pointed Roofs”. She was also the subject of one of my favorite double-dactyls, John Hollander’s Higgledy piggledy/Dorothy Richardson/Wrote a huge book with her/Delicate muse/Where (though I hate to seem/Uncomplimentary),/Nothing much happens and/Nobody screws.

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  1. Film composer, best known for “The Godfather”
  2. Doc who murdered several patients
  3. Produced records by REM and the Smithereens
  4. One of the Chicago Seven
  5. One of the stars of “Dark Shadows”

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  1. Fredric Wertham
  2. Muriel Spark
  3. Otto Skorzeny

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  1. Psychiatrist, wrote “Seduction of the Innocent,” blaming comic books for juvenile delinquency
  2. Author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
  3. SS Colonel, led the raid to snatch former Duce Benito Mussolini from imprisonment